Coming back from my recent trip to Toronto, I was able to book an itenerary that gave me the chance to try out a new airline, WestJet. For those unfamiliar with this airline, it is the Canadian low cost carrier. Many people in Canada will bash Air Canada and rave about WestJet, because ...

Most of the time, you go to a passport acceptance office hand in your forms and wait a few weeks to get a new passport. However last Sunday I lost my apartment to a massive fire with a trip to Toronto this weekend (In fact I am already up here as you read this), I needed to get a new passport ...

I visited the Detla Heritage museum a couple of months ago, but have been delaying posting the pictures because I was debating on the best way to share them. Rather than have a post that is extremely long with a huge amount of pictures and no real good organization to them, I decided to post ...

While most of the time I stay in chain hotels to maximize points and benefits, there are times where circumstances prevent me from staying in a chain. An extra night on a stay in Tampa provided to be one such situation. I was returning home from a quick vacation, and they oversold all ...

Airline museums always provide some interesting experiences for the aviation geek to see old products and unique twists for the given airline providing the museum. American has a museum on their campus at DFW, and Delta has theirs located at their corporate headquarters at ATL. The ...

As a part of the Star Alliance MegaDo 4, I was on a Swiss flight from Zurich to San Francisco on the Airbus A340. While I know many of you ignore the advertising that appears on the inflight entertainment system, this flight provided some real gems. Let us start with their newest code ...

For the second part of the notes from Q&A's at the megado.
Social Media
United does realize just how bad their social media operation is. However, they tried spinning it that they are working to improve as the general company is starting to gain an understanding of how important ...

So I have been spending the past week on the Star Alliance MegaDo 4. In fact, I have not made it home, but there were some important notes that came from the executive panel Q&A sessions, as well as the information session with Jeff Smisek. There are a lot of updates from this one, ...

So for the Star Alliance MegaDo 4, the plane was advertised as being a reconfigured 767-400. However, as the FAA filing for the event was published, there was an aircraft substitution that was never announced to everyone. As everyone knows, sometimes that can be a bad thing, sometimes it ...

A growing area within the travel industry is trips targeted toward gay travelers. You have travel agents targeting the gay community, as well as organized gay cruises. There are events surrounding Pride festivals all around the world, as well as special events such as Gay Days down at ...

So I was attending an event where the Four Seasons Atlanta was the host hotel, and the group rate was fairly good, so I decided to make a little weekend getaway of it.
Arrival
Arriving, I pulled up front, and I was immediately given my valet slip (Valet parking is $32 a night), and ...

While I previously attended the oneworld MegaDo launch party, I was able to secure a space to the Star Alliance MegaDo 4 Launch Party as well. Even with technical difficulties in forming the initial RSVP thread, when Gary announced the launch party, it filled within 40 minutes, while the OWMD ...

So yesterday I got to participate in the terminal simulation for the new international terminal in Atlanta. One of the benefits was that it was the full experience, as both a departing and arriving passenger. While I only have departing pictures (full simulation, people were even put in ...

As I'm sure many readers are aware of, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is opening a new terminal this spring. The concession contracts have been signed, most of the heavy construction is done and you everyone is waiting for the terminal to finally open so international ...

One of the megado exclusives was the Boeing Customer Experience Center. Now, this is not a place where the average person can just go and check-out the options available for the aircraft, especially since some of these options will never see passenger use because they take too much space. ...

For the New Years holiday, I decided to visit Toronto since it had been a little while for me. Given the special offer from the oneworld MegaDO, I decided to book at the Park Hyatt Toronto and redeem one of my suite upgrades. I have stayed at this property previously, in just a regular ...

I write this inflight on a Delta redeye from SNA to ATL, as today's flights turned into complete chaos when a surprise snow storm hit Seattle Sunday afternoon while Daniel and I were taking our mileage run. We pulled out from the gate and then as we were about to taxi to the runway, they ...

The hotel choice for this trip was easy. As I'm sure anybody who has priced hotels in London knows, the rates are insane. Thus I was going to make it an award stay, and since the Intercontinental Park Lane honors Royal Ambassador benefits on award stays, might as well stay there and get ...